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[Gloria]

the Globe and Mail article (Canada) I've posted in the WMW (current).

That article describes the "devolution" of the state of affairs in Iraq over the last 18 months and the prediction by an Afghani that another war is looming.......It also says that it's becoming a narco state like Colombia. Good to see this info coming out...


3//The Globe and Mail Saturday, August 2, 2003 - Page A3

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030802/UAFGHN/TPInternational/TopStories

KABUL’S CALM MASKS CHAOS SIMMERING UNDERNEATH

The Afghan capital can quite literally explode any moment, as Mark MacKinnon reports

By Mark MacKinnon

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The devolution of the country during the past 18 months seems to many a chilling replay of what happened here in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. Then, as now, the warlords moved in to fill the power gap, forming a similar government of national unity -- although Mr. Karzai is clearly an improvement on the ineffectual Burnahuddin Rabbani, the most prominent of the post-Soviet presidents.



The cobbled-together government of the early 1990s soon collapsed into factional infighting, and later full-fledged civil war, as it became clear that fighters who had worked together against the Red Army had little else in common.



Now, a similarly loose mixture of Pashtuns and Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks, moderates and fundamentalists have been thrust back together by their U.S. sponsors.



Once more, opium production controlled by the warlords is the country's primary source of income. The country is in grave danger of becoming a Colombia-style narco-economy.



As tensions rise, some say another implosion like the one a decade ago is not far off. "We have a lot of mujahedeen commanders inside this government. People from foreign countries want to diminish their power. This will cause a violent reaction," said Mullah Hamid, who heads a mosque in southwest Kabul.



"There will be another war. I guarantee you 100 per cent that it is coming."